Meg, why the hell hasnt this been made yet?!

krudler · 28-01-2010 07:35PM

dclane wrote: »

How would you take him out at the end of the film. I don't think the exploding air tank would be enough to kill him. Maybe something like a massive beaching or better still a tactical nuclear bomb placed into his stomach.

Sounds like a cracking movie

Well how the book ends is

our hero is in a small submersible vehicle that get swallowed by the Meg, then he sticks on an diving oxygen mask, gets out of it and proceeds to cut his way through its stomach, he finds its way to the Megs heart and stabs it until it dies

its ludicrous, but awesome as well:D

sprinkles · 28-01-2010 08:54PM

Galvasean wrote: »

Eh, more like 52 feet long and under 50 tonnes.

Not that we need this movie anymore. Not when we have Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzd0R_OeOc

That looks like the best film ever!!!

Good thing that guy took that womans life vest off - it was ruining the view

Magic Eight Ball · 28-01-2010 09:58PM

conorhal wrote: »

Meg looks likely to be the 'Friday the 13th' to Jaws' 'Halloween', at which point you have to think, what's the point?

Oh take that back! Friday the 13th is a far superior franchise.

Kess73 · 28-01-2010 11:26PM

uncleoswald wrote: »

Haven't read the books so don't know how they are strung out plot wise but would it not be fairly easy to find and kill?

The great white in Jaws was not that easy to kill

As for a Meg film, if it was based on the first two books and not made in a crappy tv movie style, then it could be a great watch.

Mind you, even if it was made in a crappy tv movie style, I would still give it a watch.

Kess73 · 28-01-2010 11:30PM

AwesomeO 4000 wrote: »

I like this very much. I wonder if there's room for a human who gets implanted with uh, shark dna. And gets shark powers. I love hybrids. (then this franchise could merge with Aliens and Predator franchise for some ultimate showdowns)

The shark/human dna mix has already been done.:)

Peter Benchley's Great White came out in the mid 90's, and ended up having a tv movie version made of it.

norrie rugger · 29-01-2010 01:14PM

conorhal wrote: »

I guess it's because Jaws is the benchmark for taking trashy airport novels about really big sharks and crafting them into a superior blockbuster.
I haven't read the books so I can't say for sure but the premise seems daft and there has to be a pretty limited scope in the narrative to make Meg feel like anything other than a poor second cousin to a Jaws rip off, I don't think I could suffer through another 'Deep Blue Sea' and Meg looks likely to be the 'Friday the 13th' to Jaws' 'Halloween', at which point you have to think, what's the point?
That said, it might make a pretty cool 3D action blockbuster, I guess they might be waiting to see how Pirahana 3D fares at the box office to test the waters, so to speak.

Sorry, you have to wait for Jaws 19 for that
( i purposfully ignore the "3D" jaws previously)

conorhal · 29-01-2010 01:21PM

norrie rugger wrote: »

Sorry, you have to wait for Jaws 19 for that
( i purposfully ignore the "3D" jaws previously)

They were only talking about that on 2FM this morning, We're only five years from 2015 and not only are we still plagued by roads, there's still no sign of my hoverboard damnit! :mad:

niallon · 29-01-2010 01:27PM

Kess73 wrote: »

The shark/human dna mix has already been done.:)

Peter Benchley's Great White came out in the mid 90's, and ended up having a tv movie version made of it.

Was that Creature? I enjoyed that for all its obvious TV movie flaws.

I seriously think Meg, if handled by the right dumb fun director (Jan De Bont then was a perfect choice), could be fantastic. It doesn't need names, just focus on the effects. CGI would kill it though. The PS1 sharks in Deep Blue Sea ruined an otherwise enjoyable creature feature. Seriously doubt it will ever happen though.

Kess73 · 29-01-2010 01:51PM

niallon wrote: »

Was that Creature? I enjoyed that for all its obvious TV movie flaws.

I seriously think Meg, if handled by the right dumb fun director (Jan De Bont then was a perfect choice), could be fantastic. It doesn't need names, just focus on the effects. CGI would kill it though. The PS1 sharks in Deep Blue Sea ruined an otherwise enjoyable creature feature. Seriously doubt it will ever happen though.

Yeah Creature was the made for tv adaptation of the book Great White

krudler · 29-01-2010 02:05PM

niallon wrote: »

Was that Creature? I enjoyed that for all its obvious TV movie flaws.

I seriously think Meg, if handled by the right dumb fun director (Jan De Bont then was a perfect choice), could be fantastic. It doesn't need names, just focus on the effects. CGI would kill it though. The PS1 sharks in Deep Blue Sea ruined an otherwise enjoyable creature feature. Seriously doubt it will ever happen though.

Ah yeah but Deep Blue Sea was 10 years ago, you can do better cgi than that on a home pc now, plus its animatronic sharks were fantastic, cgi for the wide shots of Meg, a giant animatronic head for the closeups, I've started reading the books again, on the 2nd one, The Trench, at the mo, great fun to read

Galvasean · 29-01-2010 02:35PM

The sequels are bleedin' mad. At one point the megalodon fights Kronosaurus*

At another point it eats a T.rex:

It's meant to be one of those 'back in time' style preludes. Odd, considering megalodon lived some 50 million years after T.rex went extinct.

*In case you are wondering how Kronosaurus can live at the bottom of the sea, what with being an air breathing cold blooded reptile and all, they evolved gills somehow.

Kess73 · 29-01-2010 06:21PM

Galvasean wrote: »

The sequels are bleedin' mad. At one point the megalodon fights Kronosaurus*

At another point it eats a T.rex:

It's meant to be one of those 'back in time' style preludes. Odd, considering megalodon lived some 50 million years after T.rex went extinct.

*In case you are wondering how Kronosaurus can live at the bottom of the sea, what with being an air breathing cold blooded reptile and all, they evolved gills somehow.

Yeah that is the second book.

As for the munching on the Trex, if done right it would make for a great, if chronologically wrong, piece of cinematic eye candy.

Galvasean · 30-01-2010 02:34AM

I'm pretty much over the whole 'Oh lets show our monster killing a T.rex to make our new monster look super hard core' angle in a lot of films these days. Jurassic Park 3 did it. The 2005 King Kong did it (3 of them actually). One of the Dino Crisis games did it too. It's fast becoming a tired cliché. Anyway, the megalodon[/] versus rex wouldn't be much of a fight, just one eating the other. At least the afformentioned movies (and game) had actual fights.
Also the scene is a lot like a scene from Walking With Dinosaurs (30 seconds in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSEGOs-XyM
(not actually a T.rex by the way, but similar looking)

Galvasean · 03-02-2010 11:43PM

Found a pretty cool looking fan made trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHdRye43gw

krudler · 04-02-2010 12:33AM

Galvasean wrote: »

Found a pretty cool looking fan made trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHdRye43gw

That was a trailer for the last book, which i really must get round to reading

Meg, why the hell hasnt this been made yet?!

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